Improvement in shirt-bosoms



FANNIE L. PIUKETT.

Shirt-Bsum.A

No.166,297. PatentedAug.3,1875.

UNITED STATES- PATENT OFFICEc FANNIE L. PICKETT, OF FLORENCE, ALABAMA.

IMPRovEMENT IN SHIRT-Borsolvls.

Specication forming part of Letters Patent No. 166,297, dated August 3,1875; application filed May 17, 1875.

To all whom itmay concern:

Beit known that I, FANNIE L. PICKETT, of Florence, in the county ofLauderdale and State of Alabama, have invented a new and usefulImprovement in Shirt B'osoms, of which the follow ng is a full, clear,and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawing,and the letters of reference marked thereon, making part of thisspecification This invention is an improvement in the meansof securingthe opening or front edges of a shirt-bosom; and the inventionconsistsin the combination, with the middle or front plaits of a shirt-bosom, ofan auxiliary plait or band of material, constructed and arranged in themanner hereinafter more particularly described.

In the accompanying sheet of drawings, Figure l represents a shirt-bosomwith its front edges disconnected; Fig. 2, the auxiliary plait orconnecting-band, and Fig. 3 the shirt-front as closed'and secured inplace by the connecting-band.

The shirt-bosom is made in the usual manner, except as to the middleoverlapping plai ts. 0f these, one is slightly narrower than the other,and both are provided with transverse slots or openings at intervalsalong their length, and which are so arranged that when one plait islapped or folded upon the other these slots or openings will coincide,so as to allow the connecting-band to be drawn in and out through them,to interlock the two plaits, and thereby fasten the shirtfront. The bandmay be secured at its ends by buttons-one upon the neck-band, and one atthe lower end of the bosom-or by other suitable means.

In the drawing, A represents the shirt-bosom, of which a and b arethemiddleplaits. c,

Fig. 2, is the auxiliary plait or connectingband, and d d the-slots oropenings in the plaits.

To close the shirtfront the plaits are placed one upon the other, sothat the slots will coincide. The connecting-piece is then drawn in andout through them, and fastened at the ends by the buttons, or otherwise.The band c may, if desired, be sewed to the shirt, either at the upperor the lower end. By this means a very neat and convenient shirt-frontis provided at little expense, and by which I am enabled to dispensewith the usual fastening devices-11amely, buttons or studs andbutton-holes, or screw-studs and eyelets, all of which modes offastening involve more expensive labor, and especially necessitate muchtedious after-repairing in sewing on buttons, and mending button-holesand eyelet-holes, and which make the garment more difficult to belaundried. Any suitable stiffening may be applied to the end `of theband c, to enable it to be more readily passed through the slots. lHaving now fully described my invention, what I claim, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is-

1. The detachable fastening-band c, in combination with a shirt-front,substantially as described.

2. The band c, in combination with the two sides of an open shirt-front,provided, respectively, with slots d d, as and for the purposesspecified.

3. An open shirt-front provided with the slots d d, arranged as and forthe purposes' specitied.

FANNIE L. PICKETT.

Witnesses:

W. D. GHURGHELL, I. B. Bocos.

